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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism
by anon1385 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism
- mikeash 13y agoWhat really fascinates to me is that it tends to all be the same people. They may not do it for everything, but the same person who's "skeptical" of climate change is also likely to be "skeptical" of the link between HIV and AIDS and of the health risks of tobacco. Beyond this, I've seen it cover everything from the health risks of bad diets to the safety benefits of seat belts and air bags in cars to the source of underground petroleum to whether evolution is true. And no, I'm not doing one of those things where I treat the opinions of a large group of people as a single block. I've seen all of the above in a single person. There is some kind of strange mental switch flipped in some people that somehow makes weird contrarian theories attractive.